The StackExchange API exposes several rest endpoints that lets us tap into one of the best technical resources around. We'll use the search method that will give us related questions once we pass a few parameters.

The response form this call is JSON data. We’ll use JSON.net to parse it and create a html widget with the returned questions. At this stage we will only use the title and link of every question to display them as a list.

C# : StackExchange html widget

In the next post we'll use the metaWeblog api to insert the widget in blog posts. In particular we will take on parsing html and inserting/replacing the widget in the post markup.